Bisan's Braces
"...the impossible just takes a little longer."
Rather than imagining Palestinians as salvific, may we recognize they are like everyone else—complex, varied, wonderful, flawed. When Pals wish for freedom from the river to the 🌊, it is to do things like go to school, fall in love, plant trees…get their braces off. open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
25.03.2025 03:11
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Here’s my family fundraiser link:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
24.03.2025 16:43
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist for involvement in Columbia protests
In a stark escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against Palestine activism, on Saturday night, ICE agents raided the home of Mahmoud Khalil and detained the activist who had been among th...
This weekend, Columbia University allowed ICE agents on campus to arrest Mahmoud Khalil–a Palestinian graduate student and lawful permanent resident–for standing for Palestinian freedom.
This is an egregious attack on free speech and student activism.
10.03.2025 19:26
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One of my animal crossing neighbors just said “I haven’t seen you in…four years and 1 month” and nothing could have been a harsher critique on this fine morning.
24.02.2025 17:41
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There's no kids table at the revolution.
We're only getting out of this together.
“No one knows how to protest for their own bodily autonomy like a two year old! Why are we sending them to a separate room instead of taking notes?” This week on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
24.02.2025 06:01
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Students sue Columbia over suspensions
Three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit against the school, citing dozens of instances where the school targeted the plaintiffs over their pro-Palestine activism, including suspension and housing...
Three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit against the school, citing dozens of instances where the school targeted the plaintiffs over their pro-Palestine activism, including suspension and housing eviction.
https://buff.ly/41d4VU1
#Palestine #Israel
14.02.2025 03:01
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I just realized I’ve already read this story before, but Elon was named Voldemort and Trump was named Fudge.
12.02.2025 23:37
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This is making me with this ep had a release in B&W. Beautiful.
10.02.2025 03:07
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Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
09.02.2025 14:48
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THREAD: 4 Things We Learned from Trump’s Meeting with Netanyahu
05.02.2025 03:58
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Internet Archive really is the people's website these days, isn't it?
04.02.2025 05:00
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Over 15 Navajo Nation Members Wrongly Detained or Questioned in Trump Immigration Raids
One Navajo Nation official said that “many fear for the threat of being deported.”…
Federal agents are racially profiling Navajo Nation tribal members, detaining them on suspicion of being undocumented.
“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Jackson said. “People have to understand that this is not the way to live or to be honorable and neighborly with each other.”
29.01.2025 16:13
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They have to come through me before they get to you! We keep us safe! 💚
30.01.2025 16:07
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Should we follow the rules?
Questioning our consent toward colonial, capitalist law.
If the rich/elite aren’t following the rules, should we?
My latest on Substack this week: open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
30.01.2025 05:49
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We will not lose the war on imagination.
There are so many things we haven’t tried.” -Shirley Chisholm
“We will not resist in silos, but instead, like a patchwork quilt, we will thread ourselves together until we overwhelm systems of injustice.”
My latest on Substack last week: open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
25.01.2025 04:37
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domskeac's profile on The StoryGraph
Yesssss.*Finally* ended my unhealthy dependency on GoodReads (by participating in Palestine-related boycott of Amazon; more here: open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...)
*And* just finished first StoryGraph-suggested book and it was a total win. It very much got my vibe.
Hope to see you there, Laura!!
22.01.2025 20:19
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Really grateful for this insight, and changing my (doomscrolling) behavior right now so I listen to this advice.
22.01.2025 02:51
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Me to my spouse: “[Spouse’s name] we gotta resist. We gotta for [kid’s name.]
Spouse, a la Bluey’s dad: “It’s gotta be done.”
22.01.2025 02:45
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My kid keeps saying our cat is their "big kid sister." Will investigate.
16.01.2025 20:42
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Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory
URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD
h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social
10.01.2025 14:11
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Happy to see how you weaved all this together @revsheseesfar.bsky.social! 🙏
06.01.2025 16:32
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Israel has massacred more than 200 Palestinians in the past 72 hours in Gaza.
US-Israeli holocaust is entering its 15 month.
05.01.2025 18:07
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I haven't forgotten about Lebanon
"Every bombed village is my hometown." -James Baldwin
This week on my Substack: "I haven't forgotten about Lebanon" open.substack.com/pub/addiedom... #freepalestine #freelebanon #BDS
06.01.2025 00:17
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